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Finance Score: 2
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 8
  • Strong growth: +2
  • No PartB
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Overall weighted support: +8
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

THE ANNE ROBSON TRUST

The Anne Robson Trust works with NHS hospitals to set up and train teams of volunteers, who provide support and companionship to people nearing the end of their life in hospital. The volunteers spend much of their time visiting patients who otherwise face the prospect of dying alone.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from multiple prominent grant makers recently
  • There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Over half the Board have joined recently

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k		 Spending
£k		 Surplus/
Deficit £k		 Fundraising
Cost £k		 Total
Funds £k		 Unrestricted
Funds £k		 Mths
Rsrvs		 Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/23£296£291£5n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/22£338£312£26n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/21£220£234£-14n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/20£193£139£54n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/19£104£52£52n/an/an/an/an/an/a
31/12/18£41£14£27n/an/an/an/an/an/a
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Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 7 years

http://www.annerobsontrust.org.uk

info@annerobsontrust.org.uk

01438 873257

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UN SDGs
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Listed activities
  • General Charitable Purposes
  • Other Charitable Purposes
GiG Classification
  • Hospice & bereavement services
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Ireland, Scotland, Throughout England And Wales,
Who it helps
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£105,000
The Clothworkers Foundation£43,000
Garfield Weston Foundation£20,000
The Grocers' Charity£10,000
Essex Community Foundation£7,059
Cornwall Community Foundation£4,500
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months		 To be used for
Cornwall Community Foundation - A team of end-of-life volunteer visitors for the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro
£4,500 07/02/2023
The Anne Robson Trusts provides emotional support for people nearing the end of their life, and for those caring for them
The Grocers' Charity - 2022-The Anne Robson Trust
£5,000 29/04/2022
towards core costs to respond to the huge increase in demand they experienced since the first wave of Covid-19, which continues to rise.
The Clothworkers Foundation - Grant to Anne Robson Trust
£43,000 28/04/2022
towards core costs to support the work outlined in your application
Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust - The Anne Robson Trust - 21/02/22
£1,000 08/03/2022
Core Funding
National Lottery Community Fund - The Anne Robson Trust Helpline
£10,000 26/11/2021
The funding will be used to continue to provide a helpline for terminally ill patients and their families. The project aims to provide emotional support comfort and compassion to those in need.
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 19/03/2021
The Anne Robson Trust - No One Deserves to Die Alone
National Lottery Community Fund - The Anne Robson Trust - COVID19 Response Work
£95,000 28/05/2020
6
The Anne Robson Trust coordinates volunteers to provide companionship to people at the end of their lives in hospitals. The project will use this funding to support bereaved families in the local community through telephone and online support and ....more
The Grocers' Charity - 2020 The Anne Robson Trust
£5,000 07/05/2020
Supporting people with rare medical conditions
Essex Community Foundation - A Message to a Loved One
£7,059 24/04/2020
6
to help run an adapted service to support to patients and their families at Princess Alexandra Hospital during the COVID19 crisis
National Lottery Community Fund - The Butterfly Volunteer Project
£95,500 20/09/2019
60
The Butterfly Volunteer Project
The Foyle Foundation - Small Grants
£5,000 02/07/2019
towards ongoing costs during the year end December 2019
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£7,500 30/04/2019
The Butterfly Service
Essex Community Foundation - The Butterfly Project
£5,470 21/02/2019
34
To recruit and train volunteers for the Butterfly Project to provide support to terminally ill patients at Colchester Hospital
Suffolk Community Foundation - The Butterfly Project
£2,577 22/01/2019
12
To recruit and support Butterfly Volunteers at East Suffolk & North Essex Foundation Trust - Ipswich Hospital site
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split

  • ANDREW ADIE Appointed: 2023
  • DAVID BAIN Appointed: 2024
  • GIUSEPPE LABRIOLA Appointed: 2024
  • HELENE WILLIAMS Appointed: 2024
  • ROBERT PETER COTTON (Chair) Appointed: 2020
  • TANYA MICHELLE COTTER Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 11/05/2018, number: 1178352
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
  • Complaints policy and procedures
  • Financial reserves policy and procedures
  • Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
  • Internal risk management policy and procedures
  • Paying staff
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Social media policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
6 returns made; all on time
Main office

Units A3 and A4
Mindenhall Court
17 High Street
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG1 3UN

Objectives

FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT TO RELIEVE THE NEEDS AND SUFFERING OF INDIVIDUALS AND THEIR FAMILIES THROUGH THE PROVISION OF END OF LIFE CARE, BY OFFERING PRESENCE, COMPANIONSHIP, COMFORT AND ATTENTION TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS AT THE END OF LIFE.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving

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